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Sparkle and Thrive Joy Foster
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Joy Foster is an award-winning entrepreneur who helps women upskill with modern technology in order to return to work, change careers or start a business. Most recently she was recognised by Grant Thornton as one of the 100 Faces of the Vibrant Economy 2018, she was awarded Startup Director of the Year for London and the South by the Institute of Directors (May 2018). She was the only Startup female finalist in the national IoD awards (Oct 2018). Her business, TechPixies was named Women in Business Startup of the Year 2018 and Enterprise Nation Female Startup of the Year 2017. Joy and her company have recently been profiled in Forbes for raising £150,000 and Stella for breaking down barriers for women wanting to re-ignite their careers and in April 2019, TechNation has named TechPixies ‘one to watch’ in the EdTech space.
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E242|Want to boost your confidence and career? Open doors on our Social Media Superhero Bootcamp
‘What do I do next?’ 🤷🏽♀️If you’ve ever been made redundant or taken a career break, you’ll know how never-wracking it can feel to yourself back out there. Because if you’re anything like Gillian Brayshaw, you’ll have sat on your sofa, your confidence shot to pieces, with all the ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) running riot in your mind. 🐜But we have just the thing to help you regain the confidence to get back out there.Our Social Media Superhero Bootcamp has helped Gillian get visible on...
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E241|How to create kinder workplaces and grow your business. Becs Crosby's story
What if the world was full of kinder workplaces? 🤗Companies that didn’t just pop #BeKind posts on social media but actually followed a framework that created work cultures based on community, connection and inclusivity?Becs Crosby is on a mission to help companies do just that and is carving out a successful business for herself in the process. And she’s doing it all from a ‘shoffice’ (a shed/office) at the bottom of her parent’s garden. Here’s why you need to tune inCome and discover how Bec...
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E240|How to become who you've always wanted to be in business. Carolyn Boddington’s story
How do you go from having a paralysing fear of being on camera and hating the thought of being on social media to managing successful social media campaigns, hosting webinars and implementing marketing strategies for clients?All within 15 months. 😲Thanks to our trio of transformational training programmes and teaming up with other talented TechPixies, Carolyn Boddington has crushed her crisis of confidence and is now hitting milestone after milestone as a fractional CMO (chief marketing offic...
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E239|Build a part-time, flexible business that lights you up just like Lois Cox
Freedom. Whether it’s time or financial freedom, we’d all love to live our lives with more free time and money in the bank. 👌🏼But too many of us are stuck with our noses to the grindstone, thinking a never-ending cycle of eat, sleep, work a gazillion hours, repeat, is the only way to achieve this. 🤯So we called up Lois Cox, a TechPixie who has created a business that allows her to work flexibly part-time so she can prioritise time with her son to show you that with the right skills in place, ...
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E238|Feeling anxious about your finances? How to change your relationship with money for good with Joy Foster
If your relationship with money feels a bit like the Nemesis Reborn ride at Alton Towers, we’ve got something to help you hit the brakes on your financial roller coaster. 🎢Our chief TechPixie Joy Foster is here with a fly solo episode that offers a few top money tips and tricks usually reserved for participants in our Money Mindset Masterclass. 🧠And the good news is that if you’ve ever wondered why you struggle with money, or you’re constantly worried about money and the thought of looking at...
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E237|How to build a brand you love and grow your brilliant business with Julia Heffer
Say the word ‘brand’, and what pops into your head? Amazon? Apple? Coca-Cola? How about you and your business? 😱 For TechPixie Julia Heffer, thinking about you and your business as a brand from the outset is the key to success. In fact, building an authentic brand is a business fundamental and goes way beyond a logo and a great-looking social media feed. Get your branding right, and you’ll put yourself on the road to saving time, saving money, finding clients more easily, and chargi...